Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Insurgent's Tale

1. Five questions that Tom Downey might asked Khalid are:
     1. Why did you chose to be a soilder?
     2. How do feel about losing your best friend during battle?
     3.Did it ever crossed your mind that you will died after been shot seven times?
     4.How did you feel when you went to visit your father after you were shot and he slapped you?
     5.Why did you chose not to fight anymore and live a normal life?
2. The frame of Downey's essay is the life story of Khalid as a soildier and his after life.
3. What surprises me of the essay in terms of contents are:
     a. How Khalid wanted to settled down and live a normal life by having a family after so many years of fighting.
     b.The many times that he was arrested and how he always had a way of escape because there was not enough evidence.
     c.How his muslims friends deserted him when he got arrested because they were afraid that their family will be at risk.
     d.How his next-door nighbours welcome him home after he was released from prison and his British friends stood up for him.
     e.How one old man said that he might doubt his own son but he will always believed Klalid.
4.What surprised me in terms of the writer's style is how he gave many  informative, descripitive detailes of events that actually happen over the  period of years.
   
    

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